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I believe an employer has every right to "judge" a person who is asking for a job and covered with tattoos.

If I run a nice jewelry store, for instance, do I want someone with numerous tattoos, or a clean-cut looking person, assuming they are both qualified?

This is not "judging" in the Biblical sense. This is making a common-sense decision for your business, customers, etc.

If I have some neighbours who are very rough looking individuals, who look like they are stoned or hung-over half the time and they have a child the same age as mine, am I being "judgmental" when I prefer the children play at my house rather than theirs? I prefer to think of it as making a wise decision. We assess people and situations all the time. We are supposed to. God gave us a brain for this reason.

LittleLight...would you hire the first person posted in #132 for anything other than a freak show? I would say a person who so mutilates herself is under demonic influences.

I know several people who will ask for another person to serve them in a restaurant if the waitress has multiple piercings. They feel uncomfortable with people who practise self-mutilation. They could have a point.

I was not speaking to using discernment to hire appropriate personal for employment, some one asked why you should not judge...and I answered that question. That being said, why I agree that as a business owner I have every right to hire people that fit my business image....where is the line drawn....when is it not okay to discriminate? But we all know regardless of what laws are in place deep inside we all make personal judgments upon people because of their appearance, and it is wrong.